Nationality American | Name Robert Lieberman | |
Books Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State Fields Politics of the United States, Political Science Similar People Ronald J Daniels, Daniel Coit Gilman, Johns Hopkins | ||
Dean's Invited Lecture: Beyond Discrimination: The New Politics of Race in the United States
Robert C. Lieberman (born September 26, 1964) is an American political scientist and the former provost of the Johns Hopkins University. A scholar of American political development, Lieberman focuses primarily on race and politics and the American welfare state.
Contents
- Deans Invited Lecture Beyond Discrimination The New Politics of Race in the United States
- Center on Global Energy Policy Launch Welcome Bollinger Lieberman Bordoff
- Biography
- Research
- References
Center on Global Energy Policy Launch: Welcome (Bollinger, Lieberman, Bordoff)
Biography
Robert Charles Lieberman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1964. He received his B.A. degree from Yale University in 1986 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1994. From 1994 to 2013 he taught at Columbia University, where he served as chairman of the international and public affairs department from 2007 to 2012 and interim dean of the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) from 2012-2013. He was instrumental in recruiting leading faculty to SIPA, restructuring the curriculum, and convening an international conference on the future of global public policy education. In 2013, he was named the 14th provost of Johns Hopkins University, concurrently joining the faculty of the department of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences on July 1, 2013. In this role, Lieberman was responsible for "promoting and coordinating the university’s teaching and research mission" across the university's nine academic divisions. He also had oversight for research at a university that for thirty-five years has led the country in higher education research spending. In August 2016 he stepped down as provost and was appointed Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in the Johns Hopkins Department of Political Science.
Research
Lieberman has written extensively on American political development, social welfare policy, issues of race and politics in America, institutional racism, and the welfare state. He has received support from the National Science Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, the German Marshall Fund, and the American Philosophical Society, and awards such as the American Political Science Association’s Leonard D. White Award, the Social Science History Association’s President’s Book Award, Harvard University Press’s Thomas J. Wilson Prize, and Columbia University’s Lionel Trilling Book Award.